It’s Monday, November 4th, 2019…but before we begin, two bits of common sense…i.e., accurate observations utterly lacking even a trace of political correctness…forwarded by Mark Foster:

Truer words were never written.

Meanwhile, for a clear sign where The Left wants to take the country, consider Progressives’ increasing antipathy towards the police:

Maryland county exec bans police station from displaying ‘divisive’ ‘thin blue line’ flag

AOC backs anti-cop protesters who jumped subway turnstiles in New York

Why on earth would ANYONE want to be a cop, protecting those who not only…

…if at all, but whose political pandering puts your very life increasingly at risk with every passing day?!?

But we’re thankful as all get out for those who still do, and will always stand ready to support them.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, writing at his Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty details how the First American Indian Professor in the History of Harvard’s primary prerequisite for occupying the Oval Office is the country’s complete suspension of economic reality:

Warren: Just Assume I Can Get All the Medication for 30 Cents on the Dollar

Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that…and her plan runs on rainbows and unicorns. Warren unveiled how she would pay for Medicare for All without raising middle-class taxes this morning, and it basically relies on everyone involved in health care and medicine agreeing to do the same or more work for a lot less money than they do now.

Her plan is to save money by reducing payments to physicians to Medicare rates, which tend to be significantly lower than private insurance, and to 110 percent of Medicare rates for hospitals and instituting a variety of payment reforms to encourage health providers to generate more savings.

The plan sets an ambitious goal of cutting Medicare drug prices by 70 percent for brand-name drugs and 30 percent for generics through a series of reforms. It would also require the new Medicare system to run with much less administrative overhead than the Urban Institute predicted would be necessary — 2.3 percent of total costs instead of 6 percent.

She wants to get the same medicine that we do now, paying only 30 percent that we do now. When you assume you can do that, sure, making the numbers add up gets a heck of a lot easier! Imagine working out your household budget by assuming you could keep your home for only 30 percent of your current rent or mortgage payments. You’re lucky if you can find a “70 percent off” deal in stores that are going out of business; Warren’s convinced she can get it for every band name medication required for every American in the country. Yes, she’s exactly the person we need to replace that guy in the Oval Office who’s in denial about reality and who keeps telling us he’s the greatest dealmaker of all time.

A key test of the seriousness of Warren’s rivals, and future interviewers and debate moderators will be how seriously they press her on these wildly unrealistic assumptions.

As the editorial board of the WSJ notes:

“You certainly can’t criticize the new Iowa Democratic caucus front-runner for lack of ambition. Despite criticism from fellow Democrats, she is sticking to her plan for a government takeover of American health care, including the elimination of private insurance that 170 million or so Americans now have. She continues to claim that this will cost “not one penny in middle-class tax increases.” She walks on water too.“

To borrow a phrase from the immortal Maggie O’Hooligan, we don’t refer to Warren as…

…fur nuttin’!

Next up, for those who heretofore have refused to believe it even exists, if this video, featuring one former (acting) CIA Director praising the influence of the Deep State in an attempted coup d’état in the presence another former CIA Director (serial liar and self-promoter John Brennan), doesn’t convince you…

…we’ve got an estate on Martha’s Vineyard to sell you, which…

…unless every person and nation on the globe immediately ceases all use of fossil fuels, will be covered by rising ocean levels within 12 short years.

Sorry, but another carbon-spewing couple, the MSM-proclaimed Smartest Couple on the Planet…

…got it first!  Though, to borrow a phrase from the former First Hypocrites, they didn’t build it…or, for that matter, honestly earn it.

And in the EnvironMental Moment, courtesy of Watts Up With That via Jeff Foutch, we learn how EnviroNazi…

Activists sailed four weeks across Atlantic for climate change summit — then learn it is canceled

“…The 36 young environmentalists set off from Amsterdam on October 2, using a sailboat in order to highlight the impact of flying on greenhouse gas emissions.

They had completed more than half of their seven-week journey to the UN Climate Conference (COP25) in Santiago, Chile, which was scheduled to take place in early December. However Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera announced Wednesday that the country would no longer host the summit, amid protests that have left at least 20 people dead and led to the resignation of eight cabinet ministers.

Instead of turning back, the Sail to the COP group, as the activists are known, have now decided to sail on to Belém, Brazil. “After the initial shock and sadness the news brought, everyone came together determined to continue what we started: putting the climate impact of aviation on the international agenda,” read a statement from the group.

…The group had initially planned to sail to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where they were scheduled to arrive around November 20, and complete the trip to Santiago overland…”

Sorry, but this raises a couple questions, the answers to which inquiring minds want to know.

First, what do these “activists” do for a living that they can just take off work for an indeterminate period, let alone months at a time?

Second, how were they going to travel overland…across the Andes…from Rio to Santiago without leaving a carbon footprint:

…via prairie schooner?!?

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s the, if you’ll forgive the pun, “current” (we crack ourselves up!) can’t-miss pick up line in the once-Golden State, courtesy of The Penguin…

…along with this stream of comic consciousness from Balls Cotton:

And last, but certainly not least, our personal favorite:

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with the Sports Section, and this just in from the Tyler Rose:

Hall of Famer Earl Campbell believes Texas Longhorns would be better with black quarterback

As Bobby Burack writing at The Big Lead observed:

“…The comment, or belief, if you will, was the textbook definition of racism. And thus far, outside of a few aggregation posts from blogs, sports media has essentially elected to not cover it. The flawed statement by Campbell is not just racist, and stereotyping, it’s also factually inaccurate. According to Campbell, all the schools winning in college, and the teams in the pros, have black quarterbacks. Let’s take a look.

Trevor Lawrence was the starting quarterback (starting FRESHMAN quarterback!) of Clemson when they won the national championship last season. As for the pros, Tom Brady was the Super Bowl-winning quarterback a year ago. Taking championships out of this equation, over the past 10 seasons, there has been a blend of races having success at the most important position in sports. Between 2008-2018, the Heisman Trophy has gone to a quarterback nine times. Three of them have been white, five have been black, and one was of Samoan descent. In that same time frame, in the NFL, a quarterback has won the MVP award 10 times with a total of eight being white, one black, and one was biracial.

There’s no substance when a discussion about quarterbacks is based on race. It’s instead baseless statements by people who are bothered by one’s skin color. And that goes for both the collegiate and professional level.

…What Campbell said was unacceptable, wrong, baseless, worrisome, and deserving of a proper response. And right now, he’s not getting it.“

Here’s the juice: Earl Campbell was one of the greatest running backs ever to play football at any level…but he would never have been a serious candidate for admission to MIT; i.e., he wasn’t ever, at any point…

…if you get our drift.

That being said, we don’t really believe Earl is a racist; no more than we hold another individual of note equally bereft of communication skills…

…to be racially biased.

Here’s the juice: had John Riggins suggested the answer to his Kansas Jayhawks’ perpetual absence from the national collegiate football championship lay in using a White QB, his reception on ESPN and the rest of the politically-correct sports world would have been far different from Earl Campbell’s poorly-phrased pronouncement.

That being said, if Earl’s of a mind to explain why he believes the type of multi-threat talent he envisions the Longhorns need behind center to return to the top is only specific to Blacks…

Magoo